At February 1976, 3,843 males and 1,086 females were recorded as unemployed in the area covered by the Bournemouth employment office.

There were 147 notified vacancies remaining unfilled at the employment office and 63 at the careers office. The figures are provisional. The vacancy figures relate only to vacancies notified to employment offices and careers offices and are not a measure of total vacancies. Also because of possible duplication these figures should not be added together. Following the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act vacancies are not recorded separately for males and females.